Talk:Kulothunga Chola I
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I don't understand why you guys butcher other people's names. This king is called Kulottunga from kula + ut-tunga (refer to your Sanskrit dictionary for this).
Kalinga wars: just look into Ganga inscriptions. There was no "Kalinga" at the time, but a very lively little kingdom ruled from Kalinganagara (now Mukhalingam), on whose throne asceneded in 1088 a king called Codaganga Anantavarman, cousin to the deceased Adivarman of Tanjore as much as Kulottunga I. And here, you've got the reason for the Kalinga campaingns: to make sure, the little cousin brother from up north keeps quiet. That's what he didn't. by the way. When he could not succeed in driving Kulottunga out of Madhyama Kalinga (the Visakhapatnam-Elamanchili area), he turned north and founded in 1113 the Ganga empire of Orissa.